The Cloak of Charity

Businesses are very realistic; the more returns you bring them, the corresponding compensation they give you.

There is a very strong positive correlation between the two.

Therefore, the Gates Foundation can offer a sky-high price of five million US dollars. This price is sky-high, let alone for a doctoral student, even for Bawendi. If he doesn't help companies do some research, it's impossible to get this annual salary based on a university salary.

Chen Yuanguang was very curious about what the Gates Foundation's so-called global health project was doing.

After Lin Jia returned from China, she chattered about what she saw and heard in the country and the differences in the granularity of government management between China and Western countries.

"Yuanguang, honestly, China's mobilization ability is too astonishing. In the process of dealing with the virus, China's management granularity can be refined to every street and every community.

If this were wartime, this would be a very terrifying war potential, meaning we could mobilize every grassroots organization.

And these countries in Europe and America can at most manage up to the city level. This is not just due to the political system, but also the core of the culture."

Because she went abroad before the virus outbreak, it was difficult for Lin Jia to even charter a flight back. After she returned, she found that China had gradually returned to normal and seemed to be well under control.

She wondered why the West didn't learn China's solution. Later, thinking about her experiences on the streets of Paris, London, and Berlin, Lin Jia realized that it wasn't that they didn't want to learn, but that their system couldn't do it.

Even in America, only core developed cities like New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles have such mobilization capabilities and willingness.

Chen Yuanguang listened quietly to Lin Jia's account of her return to the country. After she finished, he began to talk about the offers he had received and his countermeasures.

"I didn't directly refuse the Gates Foundation's offer, but said I would consider it further.

What do you think of the title, benefits, and the pie they are drawing?"

After returning to China, Lin Jia kept seeing news about Chen Yuanguang in the country, and her friends often sent her WeChat messages expressing envy that she had found a 'study god'.

After listening to Chen Yuanguang, she realized that as the center of the storm, the impact he received was dozens of times greater than hers.

"The Gates Foundation can offer this money because they are a company with very, very strong profitability. Don't think of them as a charity organization.

Last year, when I was at Columbia University, I had a project researching global charity organizations. The Gates Foundation is very large. They donate billions of dollars every year, and last year, in 2019, their total revenue exceeded 30 billion euros.

They are a behemoth themselves, and under the guise of charity, they are fully capable of helping you operate for a Nobel Prize.

The pie they are drawing, I think it's possible for you to get a slice.

Because if you sign with them, your ability is the most important thing. They think you are very potential and believe you can help them theoretically.

At the same time, the Gates Foundation certainly hopes their global health project has a gimmick and a hot topic for speculation.

When promoting in underdeveloped areas, our chief scientist is a giant in the scientific community, the youngest Nobel laureate in modern times.

As for helping you operate for a Nobel Prize, they donate billions of dollars to research institutions around the world every year, and they have been doing this for over 20 years.

It's also about spending money. When you pay taxes, the government helps you spend the money, and the decision-making power is not in your hands. Public universities that receive money will feel that it is government funding and is a matter of course.

However, when you spend money by avoiding taxes under the guise of charity, you decide which institution and which project to donate to. You hold the power of resource allocation, and the institutions, projects, and people who receive these resources will naturally acknowledge this 'favor'.

In places like China, where this set of practices is not yet so mature, it's a favor. In countries like Europe and America, where charity operations are very mature, it's a contract, more effective than a contract.

If Foundation A donates money to you and you don't give the expected return, then in the future, not only will A not give you money again, but other foundations will also stop donating. Its effect is stronger than a contract."

After listening, Chen Yuanguang was surprised by the sophistication of the European and American way of playing, feeling a sense of 'so that's how it is'. He felt that Lin Jia knew a lot, so he asked curiously, "Then is the widely rumored population control plan true?

Is the Gates Foundation truly charitable, or do they want to control the population of the Third World?"

As a former webnovel author, Chen Yuanguang was very interested in this kind of conspiracy theory.

Lin Jia said, "I don't know. My view is that the charity is definitely real. If it were fake, the evidence would have been exposed long ago.

Even the Prism Project was exposed. If the Gates Foundation had any shady dealings, the Western media wouldn't let it go.

As for population control, I think that purpose is also there, but I believe the method of achieving it is different from what the conspiracy theories suggest.

They might be thinking that some people can live to eighty, while others can only live to forty. So, through a series of means, those who can live to eighty will live to eighty, and those who can only live to forty will die early at twenty.

This is also population control, using layers of screening to ensure that only long-lived, healthy genes survive in a certain area, and then searching for the secret to extending life within these genes.

They probably have a similar purpose in looking for you, believing you have a rare talent in the field of biological computation, and hoping you can help them continue to unravel the mystery of human lifespan."

Lin Jia continued, "These rich people in Europe and America are much more obsessed with longevity than the wealthy in China. Chinese billionaires who want to live long mostly burn incense and pray to Buddha; it's already extremely rare for them to donate to hospitals or laboratories.

These Western billionaires love to donate to hospitals and biological research institutions, and some even personally serve as test subjects for longevity research programs."

Chen Yuanguang thought, Wouldn't a future with an average lifespan of 120 years be paradise for modern society?

Technology that can further extend lifespan through hibernation would probably drive these rich people crazy in modern times.

Seeing Chen Yuanguang deep in thought, Lin Jia continued, "The Gates Foundation's global health program is the main focus of their entire charitable giving, accounting for about thirty percent.

Speaking of which, have you thought about where you want to go in the future? Will you stay at a university here, or go back to a university in China, or do you have other ideas?"

Chen Yuanguang thought for a moment and decided to reveal some of his true thoughts to Lin Jia: "I'm currently thinking of starting a business.

Doing some cutting-edge technology startups, like in materials science or biology. It's just that I haven't decided on the specific direction yet, nor have I decided whether to start the business back home or here."